Expanding Boundaries and Creating Flow: Smurf Village School | Hyunjoon Yoo
written by
Hyunjoon Yoo
photographed by
Kyungsub Shin
materials provided by
Hyunjoon Yoo Architects
edited by
Bang Yukyung
SPACE Jun 2024 (No. 679)
Learn Knowledge from Books and Wisdom from Nature
Korean students are pitiful. They spend almost all their time confined within walls. They play in the living rooms of their apartments rather than in the yard, they are confined to the classroom at school, they study in the private institute classroom in a commercial building after school, and they move everywhere by private institute bus. Korean students have no chance to commune with nature. As they stay in small spaces without access to nature, they naturally use their smartphones more and play computer games longer. They can only see big spaces through media.
In order to free students from their small indoor spaces, I intended to design this school like that of a Sm...
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Hyunjoon Yoo
Hyunjoon Yoo is a professor at Hongik University and he leads Hyunjoon Yoo Architects. He studied architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yonsei University, and worked at Richard Meier & Partners Architects. He has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including the Chicago Athenaeum Architecture Awards, German Design Award, Young Architect Award, Kim Swoo Geun Architectural Prize Preview Award, and the President’s Prize for Korean Space Culture Awards. He is known as a ‘humanistic architect’ for his diverse books and broadcasts that provide insight into the world through architecture. His YouTube channel, ‘Sherlock Hyunjoon’, currently has 1.23 million subscribers.
